St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-29
THE FUR ROBBERS.
Three Of Them Caught After a
Hard Fight.

CLEVELAND, o., June 2S. = At an
early hour this morning the following
message was received at the Central
police station:
Alpena, Mich, June 29.-Jacob Schmidt,
Have got Morgan, Pat Hanley and Bill Har-
rington. Sheriff Lynch badly wounded.
j. E. DENTON, Deputy Sheriff.
These three men are the fur robbers
who rescued McMunn, their leader, at
Ravenna, O., while he was being
HOehn and Detective Hulligan. The
fight was desperate one and Hulligan
was SO badly injured that he died. Six
teen thousand dollars were offered for
the capture of the gang, and the police
all 0qer the country were on the alert
for the murderers. For the past month
Capt. HOehn has been at work in the To-
cality of Alpena. The police of this city
had received reliable Information that
the murderers were in hiding in the
woods of Northern Michigan,
and that they had made AL
pena their headquarters. Capt.
his sorrow that the criminals had flown.
The officers of Alpena were given the
fullest description of the men, in addi-
ton to their photographs. Yesterday
afternoon Supt. Smith received tele-
gram from Sheriff Lynch, stating that
the murdererS were in the vicinity of
Alpena. The chief and Capts. Hoehn
and McHannan held a long consultation
in the superintendent office. 1t was
decided that the best plan was to have
Capt. Hoehn and Detective Reeves to go
to Alpnna at once. Capt. McHannan,
chief of dectiveS was
ELATED OVER THE TELEGRAMs
which had been received. He said that
the past few days. Sheriff Lynch was
i'll Cleveland on Saturday. and his des-
crlptlOn OF the Alpena gang tailed with
that of the murders of Hulligan. Yes
terday he telegraphed that the men had
returned to Alpena, and at o'clock last
night he was wired to organize a posse
and capture them. Detective Reeves
also received information that the des-
peradoes were at Alpena, and he and
Capt. Hoehn left on the steamer City of
Detroit, destined for Alpena. The otfi-
GERS were not aware that the arrests
had been made when they left the city.
The information received by Detective
Reeves was that the men were stopping
with the sister of a woman who lives in
the city and who has been suspected
OF knowing the whereabouts of the
mnrdererS. Capt. McHannan is posi-
tive that the right men have been cap
tured. and the necessary requisition pa
pers will be secured at once. The cap
tain Is also almost positive that one of
the prisoners is not Hanley, but Mat
thew Kennedy, alias McMunn. 1t is
his opinion that Hanley has cut loose
from the gang, and that Kennedy and
Morgan are travelling together. The
1xrhn
murderers are said to have lived is
sister of Mrs. Lowry, the wife the no
toriOuS Charles Lowry, noted thief.
Mrs. Lowry lives on Hamilton street in
this city, and her house was raided
few days after the Ravenna tragedy.
An officer was sent to Columbus on the
first train this morning after requisition
papers. The murderers of Hulligan
were indicted by the grand jury of
Portage county for murder in the first
degree. Supt. Smith sent telegram
to HOehn and Reeves at Detroit, and
one to Sheriff Lynch at -Alpena, to hold
the prisoners at any cost.
Anarchists in Luck.
CHICAGO, June 2S.-A rumor not less
startling than that the supreme court
had decided to give the condemned an
archists new trial was put in indus
trious circulation to-day. The news
was to the effect that a majority of the
judges sitting on the supreme bench
had decided in favor of the points sub
mitted by Capt. Black and Leonard
Sweet why the sentence pronounced by
Judge Cary on the Haymarket assas-
sins shouldn't be executed, at least be-
fore another hearing was allowed the
condemned. The origin of the rumor,
so far as it could be traced, appeared to
be in the civil courts In the county
building, and early this morning the
rumOr that the anarchists were indeed
to haveea new trial was common talk
among the lawyers. From these it was
learned that the supreme court judges
had already dictated their opinion, and
that the declaration that this opinion
was favorable to the anarchists came
from court officials, who had ac-
cess to the documents. The story as it
is circulated this afternoon occasioned
a sensation in and about the county
building.